The Goosinator

Shoutout to the four people that have stuck with these weeklies the whole time I’ve been out on my mission, you’re the real ones.

Now, before I talk about the rest of the week, I’ll have all four of you know that we’re getting some cold weather, and it’s sick. The ground is totally covered in ice and even though they told us we can’t drive anywhere, we’ve been running around and sliding across it for a bit this morning. It’s a blast.

This week honestly consisted of some great lessons and a bunch of lessons that didn’t happen because people disappeared. Sometimes it’s unfortunate that people can choose what they do. But it’s all good, we’re doing everything we can, and that’s the best we can do.

Now to completely change gears, I hate geese. Those little snitches are so lucky it is against the law to clobber them, because if it wasn’t, my goose kill count would be in the hundreds. They’d call me the Goosinator. Geese everywhere would fear me. The reason I’m saying this is because we were out in this park, taking aesthetic pictures of the Book of Mormon so that when we put it up for free on Facebook people can see how nice it looks. But as we’re taking these pictures, these geese just start steppin’ up like they OWN THE PLACE!! Hissing and honking like they were all that. And I told Elder Grace that if any of those geese were looking for trouble, they found it. And then he was like, “It’s illegal to kill geese.” So we just walked to another part of the park. Man I tell you, some of the strongest warriors are those who don’t fight. But oh my goodness, they were SO cocky, they didn’t realize the only thing keeping them alive were the laws of this land.

Then later this week, we actually posted a free Book of Mormon ad on this Facebook buy/sell group, and WOW, the people were up in arms. You could hear the torches getting lit and the pitchforks being sharpened. We were basically bashed the entire day, for things that aren’t even true. Here are the things we got called out for:

  • Worshipping a “different Jesus” 
  • Preaching “damnable heresy” 
  • Being “deceived by Satan”
  • Adding to the book of Revelation
  • Being in “the devil’s church”
  • Oppressing women in our church
  • Worshipping Joseph Smith
  • And much, much more!

Now, none of these claims are true, and we responded as patiently and kindly as possible, but they would just crawl on back, trying to get a few more licks in. By the end of the day, our post had over a hundred comments, half of them being people yelling at us, and the other half being us defending the church against literal blasphemy. Some guys said they could get in contact with their preachers in Woodward and they could “help us leave our devil church and come to the real gospel.” It was a wild day. And then they deleted the post and all the comments.

But yeah! Life keeps going, and we’re having a pretty grand time. The couple lessons that we did have were really good, and we’ve got some cool new people that we’re teaching now. We’re blessed out here.

I’ll catch you guys next time! Have a spectacular week!

Over and Out

SHOUTOUTS:

  • Guy that made kites – Today is NATIONAL KITE FLYING DAY, so I figure I’ll pay a tribute to the guy who decided strings and paper had so much more potential than what others saw in them. I don’t have a kite, but if you do, you gotta break it out. It’s the one day of the year dedicated to kites!